#paramecium

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Scientific Research Notes of S. Sunkavally. Years: 1986 - 1990.

Page 71.

[lilyminer]

Being a bio major on summer break got me thinking shit like:

“God I really wish I could put some pond water under a microscope and follow around a pond puppy (Paramecium) for a while”

[planetoidsfun]

On the couch, where I get my best ideas

[meowdoku]

[asillylittleguy333]

I filmed some paramecium split for 10 minutes featuring other paramecium who ate things

they didn’t even split I was late to English for nothing

*cries in autism*

anyways here’s a screenshot from the video because it’s too long to load into this post unfortunately

[corvidrone]

k have a dumb ass idea/meme i had in my head for weeks

[hardwarelecampane]

not my usual content but i dont care I don't care i need one of these freaks on my blog

[zooming-glass]

This is a Paramecium

It's a single-celled organism known as a Cilliate, due to the cillia covering its membrane by which it moves

They are predatory organisms, feeding on other protists and bacteria. They don't engulf their prey like an amoeba or anything; they just have a mouth (called a cytostome) that leads into a food vacuole, which is basically a stomach

This stomach fills with acid and enzymes just like an animal stomach. The only real distinction being that when the stomach on the mouth is full it closes off and starts floating about their cytoplasm, with a new food vacuole growing at the mouth

But what happens when the food in the stomach is digested? Well they just take a poop out of their anus

Which is just a thing that these protists have